Krystal Ball

facial recognition for their glasses.

The company is called Rank One.

They say the board includes a former CIA deputy director, former FBI science chief, supplied face recognition and meta for internal development of its smart glasses app.

They go on to say their arrangement is documented in a software license that was obtained by Wired and

This would be part of the meta Ray-Ban and Oakley smart glasses.

Rank One's face recognition has been bought by the U.S.

Marshal Service, which uses it to confirm prisoners' identities without fingerprinting them during transport.

By the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, the Navy's police force, which purchased the company's video tool, Rank One developed long-range face recognition for U.S.

special operations.

Command under a government research contract saying its software could identify a face from as far as a kilometer away.

Police departments across the country use its algorithms, too, embedded in tools they buy from other vendors.

By the way, already the deployment of this tech in a policing and surveillance context has led to issues where people have been wrongfully arrested for crimes they allegedly committed where they were not even in the state where the crime was committed.

But, you know, they come up on some algorithmically facial recognition technology as, oh, it was them.

And then they end up getting arrested.

And it's literally taken weeks to months to get them out of prison and prove that I had nothing to do with this crime.

So even in the policing context, this is already horrifying.

But how dystopian that people could be walking around with these freaking things and pulling you up on, you know, facial recognition and pulling you up and knowing everything about you.

That is creepy as hell.

It is such a violation.

I think these things have got to be banned.